NPR's Book of the Day

897 Episodes

1. 'Why Didn't You Tell Me?' explores a false origin story for the price of assimilation

   Published: 7/25/2022
2. Two books show life as seen through the eyes of the animal kingdom

   Published: 7/22/2022
3. The history of control over women and their bodies is central in 'The Foundling'

   Published: 7/21/2022
4. Blurred family history gets questioned in Joseph Han's debut novel, 'Nuclear Family'

   Published: 7/20/2022
5. 'The Pallbearers Club' shows how dangerous nostalgia can be

   Published: 7/19/2022
6. Mark Leibovich details the price of blind loyalty under Donald Trump in new book

   Published: 7/18/2022
7. Two Indigenous authors on the legacy of a shared, painful history

   Published: 7/15/2022
8. 'Covered in Night' compares colonial and Indigenous approaches to justice

   Published: 7/14/2022
9. In 'Poet Warrior', Joy Harjo uses poetry to deal with pain and heal

   Published: 7/13/2022
10. In 'Fresh Banana Leaves' an indigenous approach to fighting climate change

    Published: 7/12/2022
11. Morgan Talty uses humor to tell the story of an indigenous tribe's struggles

    Published: 7/11/2022
12. Two nonfiction books reminiscent of a bygone era in Hollywood

    Published: 7/8/2022
13. Werner Herzog's 'The Twilight World' is inspired by a WWII Japanese holdout officer

    Published: 7/7/2022
14. 'Under the Skin' shows how COVID exposed racial disparities in healthcare

    Published: 7/6/2022
15. 'The Tomorrow Game' is Sudhir Venkatesh's chronicle of violence in South Side Chicago

    Published: 7/5/2022
16. 'The Last Resort' unveils the environmental toll of beachside destinations

    Published: 7/4/2022
17. Danielle Evans and Brit Bennett on the lies we tell ourselves

    Published: 7/1/2022
18. A lifetime of secrets unfold in 'Black Cake'

    Published: 6/30/2022
19. What does 'The Family Chao' have in common with Dostoyevsky? Murder and more.

    Published: 6/29/2022
20. Hanya Yanagihara grapples with pandemics in 'To Paradise'

    Published: 6/28/2022